In the news

■ Gene Stallings, a former University of Alabama football coach who won a national championship in 1992 and retired in 1996, enthusiastically joined former player Martin Houston as the one-time running back announced his campaign for mayor of Tuscaloosa in a nonpartisan election in March.

■ Shane Healey said he is “humbled and honored” and “deeply committed to making our city the best that it can be” as he takes over as police chief of Opelika, Ala., after three decades with the force, including a promotion to captain in 2014.

■ Rick Schwartz, president and CEO of the Nashville Zoo in Tennessee, said the staff is “devastated over the loss of Nasha’s calf” after a seemingly thriving giraffe died while bonding with its mother shortly after birth.

■ Joe Gunter, town manager of Fair Haven, Vt., said the election of Lincoln the goat, which is following in the footsteps of a Cavalier King Charles spaniel named Murfee as honorary mayor, helped raise thousands of dollars to renovate a community playground through sales of T-shirts, masks and basket raffles.

■ Kimberly Renee Luter, 34, was charged with aggravated assault and her boyfriend, Rkeen Antwuan Daniels, 29, was charged with possession of a controlled substance with intent to distribute in Columbia, Miss., after a 10-year-old girl was left in critical condition when Luter accidentally shot the child while trying to hit a dog, authorities said.

■ Lt. Keith Wildhaber of the St. Louis County police said he’ll resign from his post as head of a diversity unit after being admonished for speaking to the media about a county dispatcher who was accused of using a racial slur over a police radio, with Wildhaber telling a TV station that department leadership needed to take “immediate decisive action.”

■ Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, 72, seeking a second term as president of Portugal, which is largely a figurehead position, was self-isolating near Lisbon as he awaited instructions from health authorities after testing positive for the coronavirus but receiving negative results in two subsequent tests.

■ Matthew Cordell, an American living in Paris, said that “It’s fantastic … really nice to be able to get out and see some art,” as the sculpture gardens at the virus-shuttered Rodin Museum reopened to visitors, featuring famous bronze works such as The Thinker surrounded by blooming pink viburnum and forsythia buds.